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INSAN Media Psikologi

ISSN 1411-2671 (Cetak); 2310-7945 (Online)

Vol. 8 / No. 2 / Published : 2006-08

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Original Article :

The family acceptance to the mentally retarded child

Author :

  1. Wiwin Hendriani*1
  2. Ratih Handariyati*2
  3. Tirta Malia Sakti*3
  1. Faculty of Psychology, Airlangga University
  2. Faculty of Psychology, Airlangga University
  3. Faculty of Psychology, Airlangga University

Abstract :

The aim of this study is to explore the family acceptance to the son/daughter who is mentally retarded, as a step to help the optimalization process of the exceptional children and youth’s development. The qualitative method is used here with three families as research subjects. Each family has one mentally retarded child while the others children are normal. Many informations of these families are taken by an interview procedure with ive people being as informans. The informans are the person who understand to all conditions of subject. They are consist of parents, sibling, step sibling, and relative who lives with the family. The result of this research show that among three cases of family, only one of them which trully accept the mentally retarded child. The acceptance in this research is related to several factors, such as: (1) interaction between family member; (2) the presence of information of child condition since prenatal period; (3) level of understanding of mental retardation; (4) the readiness to face child condition which is different from normal one; and (5) perception about person who is mentally retarded. This result also show that there are several variations of family reaction to the mentally retarded child.

Keyword :

family acceptance, mental retardation ,


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